I'm trying to create a pipeline in Azure DevOps and I get compilation errors caused by a missing reference:
[warning]C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio\2017\Enterprise\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2110,5):
Warning MSB3245: Could not resolve this reference. Could not locate
the assembly "ABC". Check to make sure the assembly exists on disk. If
this reference is required by your code, you may get compilation
errors.
I have a VS2017 solution with 2 projects.
ABC which is the actual application
ABC.UnitTests where I added some unit tests (I'm using MSTest)
When I build the solution locally, I'm able to do a successful build with the following steps:
Build ABC project => ABC.dll is generated
Add reference in ABC.UnitTests proj to ABC.dll
Build the entire solution => build successful
The .cs file in ABC.UnitTests references the application in this way, and generates the warning above:
using ABC;
If I do a clean build where ABC.dll is deleted and then I do a build of the entire solution I get the same MSB3245 warning. So the issue is reproducible locally if the dll does not exist.
Then, when I upload the solution to Azure DevOps, I do the following steps.
Upload the solution from local VS2017 and a project is created in Azure
Build the project in Azure DevOps => reference issue reported
I have a YAML config file with name azure-pipelines.yml which references the hosted 2017 agent.
pool: vmImage: 'vs2017-win2016'
Alternate flow:
Upload the solution from local VS2017 and a project is created in Azure
Comment out the reference to ABC.UnitTests project from the sln file
Create the pipeline => build successful.
You shouldn't refer any DLL as you mentioned in the comment.
The proper way is to refer to as a project. This way the DLL takes care of itself during the build
Proper way is
References -> (Right Click) Add References -> From that using Projects tab you can choose the Project which is generating that DLL(assemblies)
You can refer this SO
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I have a sql database project in Visual Studio (2019).
I am trying to deploy it via azure devops.
The pipeline is failing due to the below error:
##[error]C:\azagent\A1_work\r1\a_Transcripts-SQLDeployment\SampleDatabaseProject\SampleDatabaseProject\SampleDatabaseProject.sqlproj(117,3): Error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v11.0\SSDT\Microsoft.Data.Tools.Schema.SqlTasks.targets" was not found. Confirm that the path in the declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk
The project builds without issue on my pc.
In the pipeline I have tried both the MSBuild and Visual Studio Build tasks, but the result is the same in each case.
Steps tried:
I found the reference in the sqlproj file xml, and removed it but this did not resolve the issue.
Appreciate any expertise on how to resolve this.
I am new to CICD, Azure DevOps. I am trying to implement CICD to Asp .Net Web API project using Azure Devops. I saw few videos on internet and started implementing it. I am done with some standerd CI part but the build is always failing because of one project in a source solution.
So Is there any way to exclude a project from build?
I haven't written .yml file by myself it is auto generated by Azure Devops.
Actually I need a way to exclude a file from .yml file from azure buil pipeline. I tried the following code but still Test.cs is included in build.
trigger:
batch: true
branches:
include:
- master
- QA
paths:
exclude:
- Test/Test.cs
Basically, you can pass the ExcludeFoldersFromDeployment as a parameter to MSBuild. Combining that with the SkipExtraFilesOnServer does the trick.
/p:Configuration=Debug
/p:DeployOnBuild=True
/p:DeployTarget=MSDeployPublish
/p:MsDeployServiceUrl=OurDevWebServer/msdeployagentservice
/p:AllowUntrustedCertificate=True
/p:MSDeployPublishMethod=RemoteAgent
/p:CreatePackageOnPublish=True
/p:DeployIisAppPath=umbraco_TestSite
/p:IgnoreDeployManagedRuntimeVersion=True
/p:SkipExtraFilesOnServer=True
/p:ExcludeFoldersFromDeployment="media;App_Data\Logs;App_Data\preview"
/p:IncludeSetAclProviderOnDestination=False
/p:AuthType=NTML /p:UserName=
OR
Use an MS Build project file.
Create an MSBuild project file from scratch
And the at the build solution step in VSTS, select or type the project file path instead of the solution file. You will have to remove it down the road though. The maintenance tasks tend to be hard and counter-intuitive whenever the code base grows quickly. Visual Studio will not warn you if you have build errors (like obsolete path) in the MS Build project file.
I'm trying to build my solution and package up the web app into a web deploy (.zip) package to be deployed.
I've added the Visual Studio Build step with the following MSBuild Arguments:
/p:DeployOnBuild=True /p:WebPublishMethod=Package /p:PackageAsSingleFile=true /p:PackageLocation="$(build.artifactstagingdirectory)\"
And I've set up the Copy and Publish Build Artifacts step to copy all .zip files to the drop folder.
The build completes successfully but nothing is copied to the drop folder because there are no .zip packages that get created.
So when I look on the TFS server, the only thing in the 'a' folder is an empty 'drop' folder. And in the 's' folder is the solution directory with a PrecompiledWeb folder in it. Not sure what that is but it doesn't look like the deployment package (and it's not a .zip).
Any ideas?
I have tried the same on VS2015 MVC web application using VSTS and TFS 2015.2.1 both. I had to do a slight change to the Build arguments in Visual Studio build. That is removing the trailing "\" in /p:PackageLocation="$(build.artifactstagingdirectory)\".
Here is the argument I passed to Visual studio build step
/p:DeployOnBuild=True /p:WebPublishMethod=Package /p:PackageAsSingleFile=true /p:PackageLocation="$(build.artifactstagingdirectory)"
Then I used Copy and Published Build Artifacts (Deprecated in VSTS you should use Copy task and Publish task instead of this task) as shown below
This gives me output as below.
First suggest you manually remote in the build agent and build the project through MSBuild command line with arguments to see if the project builds properly.
This will narrow down the issue is related to the environment on your build agent or your build definition.
You should directly use /p:PackageLocation=$(build.stagingDirectory
Besides since you have multiple assemblies that are referenced in the web app. Please also double check dependencies that are building in the correct order or referenced correctly.
Make sure the ASP.NET development workload of Visual Studio is installed.
If DeployOnBuild is having no effect, you may need to install the ASP.NET Development "workload" with the VS setup tool.
There are specific .targets files that, if they don't exist, cause these parameters to be silently ignored. Installing this adds those .targets and the parameters become active, allowing the .zip to be created.
For me (VS 2017) the relevant target file (or one of them, anyway) that was missing but is needed is:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v15.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets
If it is missing, you'll need to install as above, and if it is there, then you have a different problem. ;)
I'm having some issues deploying an Azure WebJob using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS).
The WebJob seems to be deployed successfully but it breaks the Azure website that is hosted in the same App Service! I don't have this problem if I deploy using VS2013.
This is my build task that generates the WebJob deployment package:
And this is my deployment task:
There are no errors when I deploy the Azure WebJob. If I go to the Azure Portal I see the WebJob is there, and it runs successfully. WebJob files are copied into the wwwroot\App_Data\jobs\triggered\RemoveExpiredDids folder as expected, but the problem is that some other files will be copied into the wwwroot\App_Data\bin folder, which will break the existing website that was already deployed into that App Service!!!
So I decided to find out why this was happening. After downloading and extracting the deployment package I saw there are 2 folders (app_data and bin) and the scheduler file (settings.job):
This explains why some assemblies are coppied into the wwwroot\App_Data\bin of the App Service. The strange thing is that this doesn't happen when deploying from VS2013!!! I took a look into the MSBuild log and found the following line:
Object dirPath ([app service name]\bin) skipped due to skip directive 'SkipBinFolderOnDeploy'.
Concluding, bin folder is included when deploying the Azure WebJob from VSTS but is excluded when deploying it from VS2013.
So my question is: how to prevent the bin folder from being deployed when using VSTS? Is there any MSBuild parameter/flag to do this?
I've had issue with this particular problem as well.
The latest method I found is using Web Deploy Operation Settings , -skip:Directory= (in this case it would be -skip:Directory='\\bin') when you create your azure deploy task in the release definition (Additional arguments). I've seen that this indeed excludes the bin folder from the update actions (result).
Let me know if this helps you in any way.
Refer to these ways to deploy webjob to azure:
Modify Visual Studio Build task to deploy webjob with FileSystem (MSBuild Arguments: /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:WebPublishMethod=FileSystem /p:publishUrl="$(build.artifactstagingdirectory)\\WebJob" /p:DeployDefaultTarget=WebPublish)
Add Delete Files task to release definition to delete bin folder (Source Folder: $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/WebJobVnext/drop/WebJob); Contents:bin)
Modify Azure App Service Deploy task (1. Uncheck Publish using Web Deploy option. 2. Package or folder: $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/[artifact name] /drop/WebJob)
I was finally able to fix it, thanks #starain-MSFT for pointing me in the right direction. I had to make some minor changes, though. This is the task that creates the deployment package:
MSBuild arguments:
/p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:WebPublishMethod=FileSystem /p:DeployDefaultTarget=WebPublish /p:Configuration=$(BuildConfiguration) /p:OutputPath=.\bin\ /p:publishUrl="$(build.artifactstagingdirectory)\temp\WebJob"
The difference here comparing to #starain-MSFT answer is that I had to add the /p:OutputPath= parameter, otherwise I'd get the following error:
The OutputPath property is not set for project
After generating the package, I delete the bin folder and zip it (this reduces the build time).
This is my deployment task:
Please note that $(DeploymentPackagePath) is the path to the zip file that contains the deployment package, as mentioned before. It doesn't matter if you deploy the package as a zip file or if you unzip it and deploy the folder, it works both ways.
When VS2017 was used to create a stateful solution, producing the standard boilerplate code, the resulting two projects have two different MSBuild versions.
The application uses MSBuild version 1.5.0.
The service uses MSBuild version 1.6.0 (the current "latest").
If I run the solution this way, it runs fine on my local Service Fabric cluster.
But when after I use NuGet to update the application's MSBuild to 1.6.0 (so both application and server projects use the same), the following errors occur.
Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error The OutputPath property is not set for project 'gt_strd5.sfproj'. Please check to make sure that you have specified a valid combination of Configuration and Platform for this project. Configuration='Debug' P follow a project-to-project reference to this project, this project has belatform='x64'. This error may also appear if some other project is trying toen unloaded or is not included in the solution, and the referencing project does not build using the same or an equivalent Configuration or Platform. gt_strd5 C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets 737
Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error MSB4057 The target "CreateManifestResourceNames" does not exist in the project. gt_strd5 C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets 2630
I found that after the change, some references in the application's project file continued to reference MSBuild 1.5.0. In my case, the gt_strd5.sfproj file contained four references which needed to be updated from 1.5.0 to 1.6.0. See the snippets from the XML below.
Import Project="..\packages\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Azure.Fabric.**MSBuild.1.5.0**\build\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Azure.Fabric.Application.props" Condition="Exists('..\packages\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Azure.Fabric.**MSBuild.1.5.0**\build\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Azure.Fabric.Application.props')"
.....
Import Project="..\packages\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Azure.Fabric.**MSBuild.1.5.0**\build\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Azure.Fabric.Application.targets" Condition="Exists('..\packages\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Azure.Fabric.**MSBuild.1.5.0**\build\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Azure.Fabric.Application.targets')"
To verify this, I went back a couple times and was able to reproduce both the issue and this solution.
Hope it saves someone else some time.
Best Regards
I was getting this error into PCF control.
Run Developer Command Prompt VS2017/ VS2019
a) Remove white space from your folder like Test%20-%20PCFs (source control generated name) should be TestPCFs
b) Go to pcf project folder from cmd line & run msbuild /t:restore
b) Go to cds project folder from cmd line & run msbuild /t:restore
c) On cds project folder, run msbuild
d) For release deployment run msbuild /p:configuration=Release
For other types of projects
a) Remove white space from your folder name
b) run msbuild /t:restore
c) run msbuild